Pete Howard is a serious collector seeking old (pre-1970) concert posters and music memorabilia, and who pays the very best prices. He lives in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Please contact him at pete@postercentral.com or (805) 540-0020.

Monthly Archives: July 2011

A great little advertising concert handbill from Bob Dylan’s incendiary 1965-66 world tour with The Hawks from Norfolk, Virginia on February 12, 1966. The promoters also made larger cardboard concert posters of this exact image, but this is the smaller … Continue reading →

A very unique, one-off, small-town concert poster for The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1968 U.S. tour. This small-ish poster from Davenport, Iowa was designed by a local college student at the time, Leslie Bell. It has many subtle and … Continue reading →

A 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan concert poster featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, that being a terrifically rare billing in itself. This was an important counterculture political event to free activist John Sinclair from prison after a small pot bust, … Continue reading →

A wonderful psychedelic timepiece from the Summer of Love featuring the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead for a full week’s worth of shows in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the summer of 1967. Known as BG-74 to poster collectors, this … Continue reading →

The poster doesn’t name Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead or chief Prankster Ken Kesey, but all three of those legends appeared at this San Francisco concert in the fall of 1966. Throw in the Hell’s Angels and you’ve got quite … Continue reading →